Detector of Communication & Public Diplomacy
Currently a Senior White House correspondent & Editor- in -Chief of WHIA.-US
Marah Bukai is a Syrian American poet, academic researcher and a writer who spent her professional life to bridge understanding and cultural dialogue between the United States and the Arab and Muslim worlds. Born in Syria, educated in France with an MA in Arabic and Islamic Studies from University of Strasbourg and living in the United States since 1992, Bukai has strived to build bridges between East & West through her work as Arabic Linguistic professor at University of Maryland- College Park (UMCP) and the “Contemporary Islam” class at the Georgetown University (CCPE) which she established in 2008, as much as op-ed at Aljazeera.net and Alhayat international newspaper and her advisory distinguished position at Vital Voices organization that identifies, trains and empowers emerging women leaders and social entrepreneurs around the globe, enabling them to create a better world for all.
As a long-lasting advocate for democratic peaceful change in Syria, Bukai has joined the early Civic Society Movement in 2001, the Damascus Declaration in 2005 and has co-founded the Syrian National Council in 2011.
Bukai taught at the Foreign Service Institute and has awarded the US Department of State’s Certification of Honor for her publication of Public Diplomacy in 2014. She was elected among the most influential ten Arab Intellectual Women for the year of 2011 through an online election conducted by the prestigious Al-Ahram Newspaper in 2012, and in 2009 she is recognized as Intellectual Entrepreneur from the Middle East by Atlas Think Tank Primer for a mission to discover, develop and support ‘Intellectual Entrepreneurs’ worldwide who can advance free and responsible individuals.
Bukai has seven publications of Arabic poetry, and her most recent book of English poetry “O” was published by Waref Publishing House in 2005. Her political publication on the Syrian revolution “The Third Fear” is published by Amazon books in January 2017.